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What these five books make visible, finally, is not only what Philippine poetry in English is but how much of it there is right now—and how much of it could not be gathered here.
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These books tell us that the poetry collection in Filipino is capable of ambitions it is not always given credit for.
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The mindset that romanticizes the natural world is the same one that allows us to exploit it.
In Davaoeño writer and historian Macario Tiu's Binisaya poem "Bago Aplaya," the persona watches a group of fisherfolk celebrate as a priest blesses their new motorboat. The persona shares in their joy until the poem takes a somber turn:Apan ...
How a folk song inspired a boy to eventually become a poet.
Growing up, I eavesdropped on the conversations of married women. My mother had a shop in the public market where she sold dry goods. In the afternoon, women gathered. They sat on the bangko in the storefront, their number increasing as the ...
"Evasco will tell you, each time the hard moment demands it, that your heart will grow its warm colors back, and time and again, you will always believe her."
It's taken me half a lifetime to be a girl's girl. At least consciously. I celebrate all the important women in my life, whether they want to launch a skin line, build a small community, or write a book. A ...
Time to update that reading list.
Decolonizing reading lists with titles penned by some of the most exciting Filipino authors here and abroad right now. From poetry, short stories, and essay collections to memoirs, comics, and novels, these works have been some of our favorite reads from the ...
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Quintin Pastrana writes about nature, love, and heartbreak in seven-syllable lines.
Quintin Pastrana was working on a community library in Mindoro when he fell in love with the ambahan, the traditional form of poetry of the Hanunuo Mangyan, an indigenous group. Each line of an ambahan is made up of only seven syllables, ...
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